Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith

As “Mormon royalty” within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Martha Beck was raised in a home frequented by the Church’s high elders in an existence framed by the strictest code of cond…

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